Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!

Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.

Make time, not excuses.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.